An Egyptian court has upheld the death penalty for 20 men convicted of killing policemen in the violence that followed the 2013 coup that toppled former president Mohamed Morsi.
The court has however changed the sentence for many others to long prison terms. The verdicts can be appealed again. The case involves 156 defendants and is known as the "Kerdasa incident". That is a reference to the pro-Muslim Brotherhood neighborhood where the violence took place in the Giza province near the capital. Morsi’s downfall plunged Egypt into chaos and violence that have continued to date and left many dead. Egypt has been frequently criticized by rights groups for harsh crackdown on opponents of the coup which brought down the former president.
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